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he'll be appearing at the pearl of the palms in las vegas november 2nd and 3rd and in new orleans on november 16th and 17th. >> great pleasure. >> come back soon. that's it for us tonight. "ac 360 later" starts right now. incredible journey indeed. good evening. reporting on obama care, allegations administration is trying to sal silence doubts about the rollout and edward snowden's latest bombshell. they listened in on friendly global leaders and american's top spy said there is nothing new. i'll talk to glenn greenwald, what he says. catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world and catch this wave and you may land in the record books. i'll talk to a surfer on what it is like to hang ten on a 100-foot ocean wave, only here. we begin with big new developments in the obama care story.
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this is different from the political war fair you see night after night on the partisan news channels because health care reform is so i'm fortunate we're doing what we can to turn down the noise and turn up the facts. item one, a document that clearly shows when the white house got the warning the healthcare.gov website was a disaster in the making. >> reporter: cnn learned at the obama administration was warned in september the obama care website wasn't ready to go live. the main contractor, cgi issued this confidential report to the agency overseeing the healthcare.gov rollout. it warned of risks and issues. the report gave the highest priority thing to things like we don't have access to monitoring tools, not enough time in schedule to conduct adequate performance testing and hub services are intermittently unavailable, short for the site isn't working sometimes. cgi in september said they are
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putting a team in place ato alert when the hub goes down. the head of cms, the agency that received the report kicked off testimony by saying she's sorry. >> we know consumers are edge tore purchase this coverage and millions of americans that attempted to use healthcare.gov to shop and enroll, i want to apologize to you that the website has not worked as well as it should. >> reporter: marlin was peppered with questions about when she'll have rollout numbers for obama care. she stuck to a scrip. >> we'll have them available mid november, mid november, mid november. >> reporter: she doesn't expect a massive influx of enroll lees at first. >> enrollment doesn't occur until march 31st of 2014. the massachusetts experience was very slow initially and that it started to ramp up over time. we expect the same type of
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projections. >> reporter: the website problems were like window dressing in the hearing room where open war fare has been for decades. he said his party worked years ago and the gop didn't return the favor. >> how many of you stood up to do that? none, zero. >> it's a fast choice to say it's obama care or nothing. >> are you really serious? you had a legit alternative. we got through 44 votes. >> we have more from washington. joe, has administration responded to these documents? >> anderson, they put out a statement that was short suggesting the report was a snapshot, a document at a point in time that identified issues and we work to address the issues and all issues identified. we don't know how far up the chain this report may have
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reached, and who actually might have seen it, anderson. >> it doesn't say anything we work to address the issues and saying they were identified, yeah, they were identified doesn't mean they were actually dealt with or solved. >> administration pointed out this company didn't raise any alarm bells when they testified on the hill in september. they said they were confident they would deliver and the report came out around the 6th of september so they had a few weeks to do something. >> thanks. more breaking news, evidence the obama administration is leaning on the health insurance companies to keep a lid. drew, what is going on here, what have you learned? >> what is going on is behind the scenes attempt by the white house to keep insurers from publicly criticizing who is happening on this affordable care act rollout. if you speak out, quoted, you'll get a call from the white house, pressure to be quiet. several sources tell me and my
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colleague chris that insurance executives are being told to keep quiet. bob who heads the health policy, a consulting firm and out spoken critic of obama care says he's getting calls from executives that want him to speak out, anderson, for them about the problems because they feel defenseless against the white house p.r. team. they said the excite house is exerting massive pressure on the industry including trade associations to keep quiet. >> what do they say they are being told to keep quiet about? >> about the fact clarifications were made to the affordable care act after the law was passed and those classifications are forcing the industry to drop plans that do not meet obama care requirements. there is a lot of coverage required in the plans that was not part of many private plans. those are the people being
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drooped and despite the rhetoric, i should say, from the president you simply cannot keep your current health care plan if it does not meet these requirements. he says the insurance industry is embarrassed but said administration was warned and ignored the very advice. >> when the regulations are being put together, people in the insurance industry said you're being overly regulatory, requiring too much, making it too complicated. you're not letting people keep the plans that have them now and the obama administration decided to do it the way the obama administration was going to do it. one of the things i think is clear here, is the obama administration doesn't have trust in anything the health insurance industry tells them how to run a health plan and the mess you sight see is indicative is when somebody tries to run somebody ed's business in things you're smatter in. >> why would the insurance industry not be willing to challenge them?
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>> right now, it is the federal government that's the biggest customer for these insurance companies. government backed plans accounted for 48% of health care policies last year, anderson, a number expected to grow this year and years to come. so basically, the insurance companies are in a position to just be quiet for fear of offending basically the biggest source of income. >> have you heard from the white house about this? is their side of the story? >> pushing back. jay carney just sent this note on allegations of white house pressure being placed on insurance executives. he writes that acquisition is preposterous and inaccurate and ignores the fact every day insurance companies are out talking about the law, in large part because they are trying to reach millions of new customers who will now have new affordable insurance options available from providers through the new marketplace. that from jay carney and reiterated he thinks bob
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subpoena against obama care from the start and a long time opponent, i should say on any reform. >> you acknowledge he is -- he has been critical of obama care for a long time. so viewers should keep that in mind and the white house saying they totally don't buy this? >> absolutely right, but again, our sources, sources of mine, chris sources are telling -- this is not coming -- >> there is multiple sourcing. drew, appreciate it. more on the promise president obama said repeatedly when he was selling the affordable care act. listen. >> if you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan. >> you can keep it. >> keep it. >> keep your plan. >> you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan. >> if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. if you like your plan, you can keep your plan you'll be able to keep your doctor. if you like your doctor, you'll be able to keep your doctor.
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if you have insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. nobody is talking about taking that away from you. >> a very simple declarative statement said over and over again, but no in fact, for about 15 approximately americans who have individual health insurance that's not true. right now individual policy holders are getting letters from insurance companies, in some cases cancelling coverage and offering new obama care, compliant policies that cover more but may also cost more. even though many will get federal money, it's not quite the same as saying nothing will change. back when president obama was making that promise, he knew. jim acosta, how do we know that? >> they were talking about the vast majority of americans that receive health care through medicare, medicaid the v.a. they concede there are some
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americans, 15 million, 5% of the insurance market who do get coverage on the individual market, and that those people are being effected. they don't deny that but say the president was not misleading people when he made that claim. he was just talking about the vast majority of americans when he making that claim repeatedly. here is how jay carney explained it to me at a news conference today. did the president mislead the american people when he made that comment repeatedly. >> jim, no, the president was clear about a basic fact, what is absolutely true is that if you had a plan before the affordable care act that you liked on the individual market and your insurance company didn't that i can that away from you and offer you instead something else that you then purchased but provided you the same than this whole time, you can keep it. and that's true. >> and so the white house is trying to make the case, anderson, that what has happened
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for those millions of americans out there with the cancellations letters, this is not happening because of obama care. it's the insurance companies doing it. >> i'm just -- factually that's not really accurate because what carney said is well, insurance companies are taking away plans. in the cases of this 5%, this 15 million people in many cases the reason they are taking away the plans is because the plans are very basic and they don't actually compile with the new requirements under the affordable care act, they don't have maternity leave -- or maternity care. >> i tried to go back and forth with jay carney on this for several minutes. it went on for a long time. anderson, quite frankly, i just don't know if he really answered that question but what they do say is that yes, there are people who are being affected by this. what they aren't really computing or acknowledging,
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anderson, the reason why they are being affected because their plans don't compile with obama care. they can blame insurance but obama care is causing the cancellations. >> supporters say look, the plans these people have aren't great and too basic and a lot of these people will get better plans. flip side of that is it may end up costing them more if they don't qualify for subsides, these new plans cost them more. >> that's exactly right that is what the white house is trying to say in the pitch right now is that yes, there are millions of people out there disrupted in all of this but in the end, unlike the preobama care era where they might be out of luck, in the new obama care era, at least they can go online conceivably if the website is working, buy insurance and have coverage. yes, while the benefits may be better and while there might be more coverage, they will cost more and anderson, i talked to an insurance industry representative that said that
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sthounlt have come as a surprise but something they knew is coming because these high detuckble plans that a lot of americans had were not going to work in the obama care era. they are out the window. >> appreciate the reporting. we'll expand this conversation next with former vermont governor and ralph reed and we'll talk about the details of this. later, my exclusive interview, an amazing extreme surfer carlos rescued a woman and surfed what may be a 1 00-foot water. it could put him in record books or kill him. if it was, it would be the biggest wave ever surfed. take a look. >> my foot was kind of coming out of my foot straps. >> your foot was coming out of your foot straps? >> yes. >> wow. >> yeah, that -- >> that's crazy.
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we're talking tonight about health care glitches, what president obama knew and what the legislation is doing to keep quiet. what should be held accountable for the problems. president obama often made a point of claiming that person should be him. >> the buck will stop with me. the buck will stop with me. the buck stops with me. the buck stops with me. i'm the president and the buck stops with me. the buck stops with me. ultimately, the buck stops with me. >> well, joining us now is former vermont governor and dr. howard dean and chairman of the conservative faith and coalition. dr. dean, we heard this president time and time again saying if you like your insurance, it's not going to change. you can keep it. you can keep your doctor. we know for some 15 approximately americans that is likely not the case because their plans do not cover enough that is -- that has to be
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covered under the affordable care act so their plans will change. should the president have been more up front or precise in his language? >> let's look at what actually happened. what you said may or may not be sure, if you like your insurance. these folks aren't going to know until they see what they get instead. for the most part, for the most part, more comprehensive insurance -- >> but -- >> they may have to pay more but in fact, most of them will not. most of them will qualify for the subsidy because that's who has to go on the individual market, they make modest incomes, often small business people. this isn't part of the blame game routine. there is game to go around. i agree with the president, the buck stops with them but this has to roll out before we know how good or bad it. i'm betting it will roll out better before -- after the first of december and that people are going to like this because they liked it in massachusetts and it did what it's supposed to do in massachusetts ralph, reed you're
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obviously not a fan of it but let me ask, should the president have been more precise when he kept saying to people, you know, your plan isn't going to change if you like your plan? >> well, if he didn't know what he when he was making those initial statements, anderson in 2008, '09 and '10 we know from news organizations from cnn and nbc news. july of 2010 when the department of health and human services prom gated these regulations, they made it abunld dentally care any change in an existing policy including the crossing of a t, dotting an i, the changing of a plan and providers and deductibles, any change no matter how minor you were no longer grandfathered. at that point it was hanging over every single person in this country who is responsible by
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the way, who plays by the rules and out of their own pocket without subsidies or help from their employer goes on the market and purchases these policies. we know 50 to 75% of these people will lose health insurance as it's constituted but the initial evidence is the deductibles will be higher and premiums three, four, five timer higher and the irony, tragedy of this is that a plan designed to solve a problem, which is 48 million people without insurance is probably going to dump another 7 to 10 million people off the insurance rolls and many will wait until they get sick and just pay the fine. they won't -- >> i have to say -- i have to say respectfully that is total nonsense.
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that is complete speculation based on exactly nothing. the fact of the matter is that these people will all end up with insurance and most of them will get subsides. technically speaking, the premium may be higher but the average premium for a young person is probably going to be under $100 a month. that's pretty good. we have costed out some of this stuff from vermont. the average working person making $30,000 a year, their costs will go down about 40%. >> some people -- >> this is just doom and gloom and nonsense. will there be people hurt? yes. the vast majority will be hurt. >> i'm suddenly going to be forced to have health insurance that has maternity care where i'm a guy -- >> that's true. >> and i don't need maternity care. >> anderson, that is true. we've had that system in place for 20 years in this state. we believe health insurance is of necessity and by design is a pool with everybody, men and women.
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>> yeah -- >> in the obama care situation, essential care is covered. good policies, a lot of policies in the individual market are fly by night and will be eliminated. >> ralph, people who support it say look, the people who will, yes, have to change their very basic policies but they will get better policies, they will get better health care and that will benefit everybody. >> know, what is actually going to happen is, people who are healthy, people who have played by the rules and covered themselves responsible so they weren't a burden on the government are now going to get hammered and i talked to a democrat in virginia two days ago whose in his 50s. he doesn't need reproductive health services. he doesn't need maternity care. he just got a letter from his employer -- from his insurance company. he called the insurance company. the policy they are offering him doubled the deductible and will cost him $5,000 a year
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additional and he's being asked to call for mental health care services and mandates that he doesn't need, want and shouldn't have to pay for. my point is what is really unfortunate about this is if we want to have a real reform that moves us in a positive direction, we would want to go in the exact opposite direction. we would want people who don't need those services to be able to buy a scaled down policy that was a high deductible, not just catastrophic by primary care, preventive care, basic services they need and let's have a consumer patient centered health care system -- >> dr. dean -- >> that meets the needs of the patient. >> that is not a health care program. what happens if you get a mental i'llens, that is a lousy policy. if they invent their own health care policy and guess at what they might or might not have, that is not service health insurance.
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if you look in massachusetts, let's be frank. this plan that obama has was modelled after romney's plan in five years. 98.5% in massachusetts have health insurance, far greater than any other state in the country this program may have flaws. we have not yet discovered what they are. this is speculation, nonsense. i'm tired of it. i think it's time for all americans to pull together -- >> i love -- >> -- do the best we can to make this work for all of us. >> i love the way the democrats do that, the fact is this plan, this health care plan passed in both the senate and house without a single republican vote. >> are you saying it's not working the way dr. dean is saying in massachusetts. >> totally different situation. you had a much lower of uninsure asked very few people who had to buy into this. i think in massachusetts it was in the low single digits of
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people who didn't have health insurance. that's not the case. >> okay. >> in the united states as a whole. it's apples and oranges and you shouldn't try to have a command and control system. >> we got to leave it there. dr. dean good to have you. thank you very much. >> thanks. >> for more go to cnn.com. let me know what you think. let's talk about it on twitter hash tag "anderson 360." let's see what glenn greenwald says. daring or completely crazy but record-setting. i talked to a brazilian surfer that rode that giant, giant monster wave. life's an adventure when you're with her.
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welcome back. america's top intelligence officer james clear had a lot of questions to answer today. the director of national intelligence says allies absolutely spy on american leaders and didn't say whether president obama himself knew about the targeting and spying on phones and the german chancellor. he did suggested -- >> would it be fair to say that the white house should know what those collection priorities are? >> they can and do, but i have to say that that does not necessarily extend to the detail, thousands and thousands of individual requirements. >> this started, as you recall, with a report the nsa monitored the german chancellor's cell phone and could be traced back to nsa whistle blower edward
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snowden. glenn greenwald joins us tonight. want to play something vice president dick cheney said to tapper. tapper asked him about edward snowden. i want to play what he said. >> the problem with snowden is he had acre says to classified information. he's a trader plain and simple. some say he's a whistle blower. he's talked about methods and ways we collect intelligence. >> a number of people said and come around and changed their opinion but clearly vice president cheney doesn't sound like he's going to. how do you respond to what he said? >> i'm really glad dick cheney is available to speak on this because i think he under scores the most important point.
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dick cheney engaged in some of the worst, most radical conduct in the united states in secret from lying about the war in iraq to torturing people, to putting people in cages with no lawyers and eavesdropping of people. people in political power like dick cheney want to do what they do behind a wall of secrecy because they always consider those who bring transparency to what they do to evil people. edward snowden is considered a hero to people around the world and the united states and received a whistle blower award. he told people about the things people should know. it's created a worldwide debate over internet freedom and the value of privacy and dangers of surveillance and moments for reform and all kinds of legislators around the world and the world is much better off the dick cheneys of the world can't abuse powers. >> so when they say it has done
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harm to the united states, have you seen any actual proof of harm to the united states? is there any proof that could be shown to you that could make you believe it harmed the united states? >> let a sing the government official who goes on television and says that anything that we published that's from the united states point to a single fact that we've publish that resulted in any tangible harm and make them say what that harm is. the terrorists have always known forever that the united states government is trying to monitor their communications. we didn't tell the terrorist anything they didn't already know. what we told the world what they didn't know is this spying system is directed at innocent people, people that have nothing to do with terrorist and involved in economic trade, it's about bulk spying to increase the power of american officials and what dick cheney and those
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are worried about is not that we harm national security but we harm their reputations and their credibility by exposing their wrongful acts to the world that they wanted to keep secret. >> the director of national intelligence james clapper defended collecting intelligence. i want to play for the viewers what he said. >> to determine if what they -- from an intelligence perspective of what they are saying gels with what is going on, it's invaluable to us to know where countries are coming from, what their policies are, how that would impact us across a whole range of issues. so, and it isn't just leaders themselves, it what goes on around them and the policies that they convey to their governments. >> so glenn, he said this has been going on for decades and leadership intentions that that's essential and allies spy
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on us as well and more country has oversight of the intelligence community than the united states. >> well, anderson, what he's expressing is a warped and radical view as evidence by these leaders to the fact they are being personally targeted. perhaps the best evidence, one of the most loyal defenders of the nsa in the entire country, diane, the chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee said number one that she emphatically imposes this spying on allied leaders who are democratically leaders because it destroys trust and number two, she said as the oversight chair she had no idea this was taking place. the white house also claims they were never told. so general alexander's assertion is being contradicted. >> are you saying you don't believe that other nations try to spy on leadership intentions in the united states, that they want to know what president
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obama is thinking and what advice they are giving him and what he's saying. >> everybody spies, anderson. it's a question of the degree to which they spy, how appropriate the targets are that they select and the invasiveness of that espionage. there is lots of costs and benefits to spying on allies, including the pact if they find out you're going to destroy the relationship of trust you build up between the allies. what the united states system of espionage is is a some unlike anybody else in the world does. mass bulk spying on the part of tens of millions of its citizens and tens of millions in the world. economic espionage, nothing to do with terrorism and spending a full decade listening to the person conversations of one of the closest allies. sure, other countries spy but nowhere near to the extent or invasiveness or cad hill list m of the government and that's why it's so controversial. >> glenn greenwald, thanks for
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being. police discover body parts in two separate but connected sewage plants. appears to be the same person. rob brown launches a complaint of racial profiling against a famous new york city department store. he's not the only shopper to do so.
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let's get a quick look at headlines. >> a murder mystery, body parts turned up in two separate but connected sewage treatment plants is believed to be the same person and they believe it's a woman's body intentionally placed inside the city's sewage system. jurors in the martin macneill trial heard an interview his daughter gave in 2008 when she was 7. she said her mother ease body was quote all the way in the bathtub when she pound her. anderson, new york city police commissioner ray kelly was booed off the stage in brown university. he was there to give a speech in stop and frisk. the talk was cancelled. police commissioner feeling the anger among some students there. >> isha thanks very much. new allegations of racial profiling with the new york city police and two high-profile new york department stores. the new york state attorney
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general gave them until friday to turnover policy information on stopping and questioned people. two african americans were stopped after buying at barneys. new york. they said no employees were involved and a macy's flag ship store is investigated after two african americans claimed they were declined by police after making purchases. one is rob brown an actor. he says he was accused of buying an expensive watch with a fraud credit card. he's suing the store and the police department. macy's said there is no record employees called police about brown. i spoke to him and his attorney. >> you were in may sees to buy a watch for your mom for her graduation. explained what happened. >> i go to macy's to get the watch. decided i wanted to get her a mavado watch. an older gentleman helped me
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select the watch. finally figured out which one i wanted. it happened to be a display model so he needed to clean some. >> you off it where the tag is. >> uh-huh. >> while he was doing that, i went to a sun glass hut in may sees to select shades for myself. i went to finish the transaction with the watch. used my american express. signed for it. got my receipt. transaction is over. i go to do the transaction with the shades, before i could get them, i have my credit card and i get tapped on my shoulder. i turn around. i see a white male. there is another white male, someone taps my arm, another white male and at that point i say what is going on? they say that's a fake card. you're going to jail. someone show some badge. it happened quickly so i'm like okay look, i just used this card
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to buy this watch. it's not a fake card. i have plenty of id on me. they cuff me, parade me around the store. we do this all the time, it's a fake card, you're going to jail. >> couldn't the salesperson called american express and verify the card was real? >> anderson, that the the question i have at the time. still asking. he's going through my id and asking about previous addresses, my louisiana address, i have a condo down there in new orleans. that clued me in like okay, what do you know about new orleans? maybe you recognize me from the show set in new orleans. so they release me or at least let me out of the cell. i get to graduation late. i'm going to the balcony and find where they are sitting and find my mom. >> this special day was basically. >> ruined. >> what is that feeling to be paraded through the store like that? >> furry and helplessness
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because i'm just here to try and buy a watch for my mother, that's all and i get locked up for it? more do i have to do to keep this from happening? >> so the fact you were buying an expensive watch, that may have played a role, raised some eyebrows among people? >> i'm not sure that's why we're doing this investigation but that's the only thing that makes sense. i'm fairly young, black, what is this kid doing. >> $1300 watch. >> and go get shades -- something is up. let's find what is up. >> even if you break it down, the initial approach, if you look at the nypd and their actions the way they approached him so aggressively, not giving him even a moment to verify his identity. not even thinking to call american express because as he said before, they were certain that his card was a fake.
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hey, welcome back. a brazilian surfer may have set a record. the wave was taller than 100 feet, not definitive, that's well over the number he needs to break a record in 2007. garrett east record is 78 foot wave. location is known as a mecca for giant waves and also incredibly dangerous spot to surf. there are rocks right at the base just before he caught that mountain of a wave which could have killed him, he rescued a fellow surfer and friend who nearly drowned. joining me is carlos bulay. congratulations. i watched the video of you on
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that wave over and over again today. every single time your heart stops. what was it like riding the wave? >> it's crazy, you know, because you going so fast and you know that it can fall and it's like going down a mountain that never ends because while the wave it -- it's very intense and it's so hard for you to keep control in a situation like that, and i had my heart coming up out of my mouth all the time like you have to hold yourself you have to hold yourself. you're not going to fall. you're not going to fall. i was so happy when i made it all the way to the bottom and i hold the first white water hit me and the second white water i couldn't hold anymore but i made it and i made it and i was glad just to do it, you know. >> i interviewed garrett last
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year and i was there with him and when he was riding the 78-foot wave, the current record, he looked back and described it like being an avalanche. did you actually look back at the wave when you were on it? >> no, i didn't, not on this one. i didn't have time to do it. i was trying to keep control all the time. my board was just jumping all over the place. my foot was kind of coming out of my foot straps. >> your foot was coming out of your foot straps? >> yes, yes. >> wow, that's crazy. >> that was crazy, you know, just going so fast and my foot was coming out and it was so tired. i did everything correctly but you know how it is, it so hard to keep control because you hitting bumps after bumps and you going fast. >> and right before you went on that wave and had that incredible ride, another surfer,
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a woman named maya gabrielle, a woman you train with almost dawned. what happened to her? >> she was doing okay at the beginning. she hit couple bumps and kept control, but somehow she fell, and she went -- when she fell, i lost eye contact with her for at least four or five minutes and she disappear on the next wave and when she was face down and i decided to let the ski go and jump in the water and then i took her and grabbed her and i said she's not going anywhere, i'm going to stay with her and luckily, i was able to make it all the way to the beach. >> and she's okay now? >> yeah, we did the cpr and she went to the hospital with the ambulance. she's okay. she's doing all right. she's alive. >> right after doing cpr on her
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you went out and road this incredible wave. do you have a sense? everybody is looking for -- to ride a 100-foot wave. do you think this is a 100-foot wave. i know lit take months before it actually decided. >> yeah, there is a huge possibility for that to happen because last year, last season garrett rode the wave here and everybody was saying that that would be the 100-foot wave but his wave didn't break and this wave that i surf was just on the right spot and this one broke and it's there. you know, you can check all the images, the pictures and it incredible. >> well, it awesome and congratulations and it great for you. it's great for garrett and everybody and it's great for the town which i know everybody who surfs there has a special feeling for it. carols, congratulations.
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time now for "the ridiculist." a cautionary tell, in connecticut the news morning team was disgust when the meteorologist found food on the floor and ate it. take a look. >> you look great and that's all over here. >> what is happening? >> come on, clean up. >> awe, awe. >> let's go to the roads. >> i can't believe you ate that.
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>> you can't? >> i do. >> it's elephant. >> they taste like shoes. >> oh. >> smells like feet. [ laughter ] >> you are crazy. you just ate that right off the floor. >> i don't think that the -- >> oh, boy. >> i don't think -- >> that is beyond the three-second rule. way beyond. >> so he ate some cereal off the floor. i'm not judging, except it does get worse. >> ladies and gentlemen, those were not grape nuts that i ate. i kept finding more and for of it on the floor and i thought it was grape nuts because it looked just like it. my cat threw up and i stepped it in and that's what i ate. i thought it was grape nuts. i ate cat vomit right here on television. it disgusting. it's on the bottom of my show. i thought it was grape nuts and it's cat vomit.
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>> not grape nuts. more like cat chukkla. add a glass of long expired orange juice and toast prom a dumpster. he has taken flak from it. give him credit. it's not every man that would scarf booty pebbles on air. he could say nothing and could have ate grape nuts off the floor. from a producing standpoint this did help to fill that day's trending now segment. >> i'm going to throw up. a lesson that's what is trending now, irene, i'm sick. >> we're all sick. >> look, it's like in pieces right here. i thought it was grape nuts. >> make it go away, please. >> ewww. i'm done. i'm not doing my story. >> thanks for showing us that, scott.
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so the next time you see what you think is cereal, it's part of a balanced breakfast on "the ridiculist." that does it for us.